Aldi Tafani
Executive Director, Financial Advisor
Phone:
(212) 271-0634(212) 271-0634
The Tafani Group at Morgan Stanley
Direct:
(212) 893-6564(212) 893-6564
Our Mission Statement
Working with you to preserve and grow wealth for your long-term goals.
Our Story and Services
The Tafani Group, joining Morgan Stanley in January 2025, brings a distinguished approach to wealth management with a focus on creating customized portfolios tailored to each client’s unique goals and financial aspirations. Their dedication to individualized solutions ensures that every client benefits from a strategy designed specifically for their needs, whether preserving wealth, planning for retirement, or building long-term investments.
Renowned for their exceptional client service, The Tafani Group is committed to flexibility and accessibility. They make meeting with clients a priority, accommodating schedules to ensure meaningful, personalized interactions. Whether addressing immediate concerns or planning for the future, the team consistently goes above and beyond for their clients that inspire confidence and trust.
By combining their expertise with Morgan Stanley’s global resources, The Tafani Group is poised to offer an elevated wealth management experience. Their unwavering accessibility, paired with their client-first philosophy, reaffirms their dedication to empowering individuals and families to achieve their financial goals.
Renowned for their exceptional client service, The Tafani Group is committed to flexibility and accessibility. They make meeting with clients a priority, accommodating schedules to ensure meaningful, personalized interactions. Whether addressing immediate concerns or planning for the future, the team consistently goes above and beyond for their clients that inspire confidence and trust.
By combining their expertise with Morgan Stanley’s global resources, The Tafani Group is poised to offer an elevated wealth management experience. Their unwavering accessibility, paired with their client-first philosophy, reaffirms their dedication to empowering individuals and families to achieve their financial goals.
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Our Process
Our clients look to us for advice that includes their investments but goes far beyond to encompass business planning, investment management, lending strategies and other dimensions of their financial lives. That is why we employ a comprehensive financial planning approach that consists of the following steps:
Step 1: Initial Call
An Initial Call in which we’ll discuss what you hope to get from a relationship with us. We’ll ask you about your previous experiences with Financial Advisors or on your own. And we’ll discuss what you perceive to be your major objectives and potential obstacles to achieving them.
Step 2: Discovery Meeting
A Discovery Meeting in which we will take inventory of your finances and what you want your wealth to accomplish. We’ll identify your goals, attempt to quantify their cost, and determine whether you have the resources to achieve them within your required timeframe.
Step 3: Plan Presentation
A Plan Presentation Meeting in which we’ll present your financial plan and the strategies it suggests for filling any gaps between your goals and resources. Your plan will contain an asset allocation based on the size of those gaps and your risk tolerance.
Step 4: Plan Implementation
Plan Implementation that involves bringing your plan to life. This may entail additional consultation with Morgan Stanley professionals who focus on business planning, lending strategies and other disciplines relevant to your situation. It will also involve the development of a personalized investment strategy.
Step 5: Ongoing Evaluation
Ongoing Evaluation to help us determine whether you are proceeding toward your financial destination as anticipated. We monitor your performance on an ongoing basis and may alter our strategies to accommodate changing circumstances in your life or trends in the financial markets.
Next Steps
If this sounds like what you need to help gain confidence in your financial life and you’re ready to explore what that could look like, let’s schedule a time for a 30-minute connection conversation.
WHO WE SERVE
We take pride in building long-term relationships with our clients, as well as maintaining an exceptional level of professionalism. We give our clients the confidence they need to help navigate a challenging financial world through personalized service, transparency, and a perspective.
Retirees & Pre-Retirees
Whether you're planning for retirement, looking to turn your savings into income as you transition into retirement, or are seeking to make your nest egg last, we are here to consult you on all your financial needs.
Business Owners
Helping business owners with key strategic needs such as access to capital, plan administration and a variety of exit strategies.
Multi-Generational Legacy Planning
Our team is dedicated to helping you build a lasting legacy that aligns with your family’s unique values and vision. Through thoughtful, multigenerational planning, we work to support the continuity of your goals across generations, preserving what matters most to you.
Ultra-High Net Worth Families
We have experience working with high-net-worth individuals and families, providing comprehensive wealth management services -- including investment management, tax planning, estate planning and risk management -- tailored to help meet the unique goals and needs of you and your family.
EVERYTHING YOU NEED, ALL IN ONE PLACE
As a Morgan Stanley client, you have access to a suite of digital tools and resources aimed at helping you manage your finances with greater ease.
Morgan Stanley Online
Beyond viewing your account balance and activity, Morgan Stanley Online (MSO) has a suite of features that allow you to manage your everyday finances from paying bills and sending money to transferring funds and authorizing transactions with eAuthorizations.
Morgan Stanley Online
Total Wealth View
View all your external financial accounts directly in Morgan Stanley Online or the mobile app. By linking your accounts, you’ll benefit from more informed wealth planning, secure data access and convenient connectivity.
Total Wealth View
Digital Vault
Digital Vault allows for easy sharing and convenient access to your most important documents from wills and deeds to financial statements and tax fillings. Easily manage your encrypted financial records all in one place.
Digital Vault
Morgan Stanley Mobile App
Securely access your Morgan Stanley account–from virtually anywhere.
Morgan Stanley Mobile AppLocation
399 Park Avenue
Floor 12
New York, NY 10022
US
Direct:
(212) 893-6564(212) 893-6564
Meet The Tafani Group
Matthew Reinhart
Vice President, Financial Advisor, Corporate Retirement Director
Phone:
(212) 893-6564(212) 893-6564
Esperanza Ponce
Client Service Associate
Phone:
(305) 376-8539(305) 376-8539
About Me
Securities Agent: FL, AR, WY, GA, IA, PR, PA, NY, NJ, MD, KY, IL, AZ, RI, MI, CT, VI, UT, SC, OK, NH, ND, DE, CO, VT, OH, NM, MT, ME, LA, AL, AK, TN, NE, NC, MO, MN, IN, CA, WI, WA, SD, OR, MS, KS, WV, VA, MA, ID, DC, TX, NV, HI; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative
About Me
Securities Agent: LA, PR, NV, ME, DC, WA, VA, SD, OK, NM, MN, MA, KY, KS, HI, CA, PA, NJ, ND, IL, AL, MT, IA, CO, WV, VT, VI, RI, OR, IN, ID, GA, AZ, AR, WY, OH, WI, SC, NC, FL, TN, NY, NE, MD, DE, CT, AK, UT, TX, NH, MS, MO, MI; General Securities Representative; Investment Advisor Representative
About Esperanza Ponce
With over 41 years in banking, including 8 dedicated to serving wealth clients, Espy Ponce brings extensive expertise to her role as Client Service Associate for The Tafani Group. She is known for delivering exceptional service to meet client's needs.
Born in Cuba and raised in Miami, Florida, she received her BA in Business administration from FIU. A lifelong supporter of the arts, Espy enjoys attending live theater, reflecting her appreciation for creativity.
Born in Cuba and raised in Miami, Florida, she received her BA in Business administration from FIU. A lifelong supporter of the arts, Espy enjoys attending live theater, reflecting her appreciation for creativity.
Contact Aldi Tafani
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Wealth Management
Global Investment Office
Portfolio Insights
Retirement
Working with you to understand your life goals and develop a personalized wealth strategy. Today and for the years to come.
- 401(k) Rollovers
- IRA Plans
- Retirement income strategies
- Retirement plan participants
- Annuities
Investing
Working closely with you to guide your wealth and investments through the most challenging market cycles.
- Asset Management
- Wealth Planning
- Traditional Investments
- Alternative Investments
- Impact Investing
Family
Creating customized financial strategies for the challenges that today’s families face.
- Estate Planning Strategies
- 529 Plans / Education Savings Planning
- Long Term Care Insurance
- Special Needs Planning
- Trust Services
Business Planning
Helping you on key aspects of your business such as ownership, liquidity and developing opportunities.
- Succession Planning
- Business Planning
- Qualified Retirement Plans
Financial Planning for Life After Selling a Business
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Philanthropy
Making sure your philanthropic dollars are managed with the same high quality service as the rest of your wealth.
- Endowments
- Foundations
- Donor Advised Funds
- Impact Investing
Donor Advised Funds: A Smart Way to Manage Your Giving
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Ready to start a conversation? Contact The Tafani Group today.
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3Morgan Stanley Wealth Management is the trade name of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC, a registered broker-dealer in the United States.
Check the background of our Firm and Investment Professionals on FINRA's BrokerCheck*.
The information, products and services described here are intended only for individuals residing in states where this Financial Advisor is properly registered as described in this site.
Morgan Stanley reserves the right, to the extent permitted under applicable law, to retain and monitor all electronic communications. Morgan Stanley will not accept purchase or sale orders via any Internet site, social media site and/or its messaging systems. Morgan Stanley does not endorse and is not responsible and assumes no liability for content, products or services posted by third-parties on any Internet site, social media site and/or its messaging systems. All electronic communications are subject to terms available at the following link:
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The securities/instruments, services, investments and investment strategies discussed in this material may not be appropriate for all investors. The appropriateness of a particular investment, investment strategy or service will depend on an investor's individual circumstances and objectives. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC recommends that investors independently evaluate particular investments, strategies and services, and encourages investors to seek the advice of a Financial Advisor or Private Wealth Advisor. This material does not provide individually tailored investment advice. It has been prepared without regard to the individual financial circumstances and objectives of persons who receive it.
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC (“Morgan Stanley”), its affiliates and Morgan Stanley Financial Advisors or Private Wealth Advisors do not provide tax or legal advice. Individuals should consult their tax advisor for matters involving taxation and tax planning and their attorney for legal matters.
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC (“Morgan Stanley”) is not implying an affiliation, sponsorship, endorsement with/of the third party or that any monitoring is being done by Morgan Stanley of any information contained within the website. Morgan Stanley is not responsible for the information contained on the third-party website or the use of or inability to use such site. Nor do we guarantee their accuracy or completeness.
The views, opinions or advice contained within third party websites or materials are solely those of the author, who is not a Morgan Stanley employee, and do not necessarily reflect those of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC, or its affiliates. The strategies and/or investments referenced may not be appropriate for all investors as the appropriateness of a particular investment or strategy will depend on an investor's individual circumstances and objectives.
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For more information, please see the Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC Client Relationship Summary.
2When Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC, its affiliates and Morgan Stanley Financial Advisors and Private Wealth Advisors (collectively, “Morgan Stanley”) provide “investment advice” regarding a retirement or welfare benefit plan account, an individual retirement account or a Coverdell education savings account (“Retirement Account”), Morgan Stanley is a “fiduciary” as those terms are defined under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), and/or the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), as applicable. When Morgan Stanley provides investment education, takes orders on an unsolicited basis or otherwise does not provide “investment advice”, Morgan Stanley will not be considered a “fiduciary” under ERISA and/or the Code. For more information regarding Morgan Stanley’s role with respect to a Retirement Account, please visit www.morganstanley.com/disclosures/dol. Tax laws are complex and subject to change. Morgan Stanley does not provide tax or legal advice. Individuals are encouraged to consult their tax and legal advisors (a) before establishing a Retirement Account, and (b) regarding any potential tax, ERISA and related consequences of any investments or other transactions made with respect to a Retirement Account. Individuals should consult their tax advisor for matters involving taxation and tax planning and their attorney for matters involving trust and estate planning, charitable giving, philanthropic planning and other legal matters.
3Morgan Stanley Wealth Management is the trade name of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC, a registered broker-dealer in the United States.
Check the background of our Firm and Investment Professionals on FINRA's BrokerCheck*.
The information, products and services described here are intended only for individuals residing in states where this Financial Advisor is properly registered as described in this site.
Morgan Stanley reserves the right, to the extent permitted under applicable law, to retain and monitor all electronic communications. Morgan Stanley will not accept purchase or sale orders via any Internet site, social media site and/or its messaging systems. Morgan Stanley does not endorse and is not responsible and assumes no liability for content, products or services posted by third-parties on any Internet site, social media site and/or its messaging systems. All electronic communications are subject to terms available at the following link:
https://www.morganstanley.com/disclaimers/mswm-email.html. Any profiles and associated content are for U.S. residents only.
The securities/instruments, services, investments and investment strategies discussed in this material may not be appropriate for all investors. The appropriateness of a particular investment, investment strategy or service will depend on an investor's individual circumstances and objectives. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC recommends that investors independently evaluate particular investments, strategies and services, and encourages investors to seek the advice of a Financial Advisor or Private Wealth Advisor. This material does not provide individually tailored investment advice. It has been prepared without regard to the individual financial circumstances and objectives of persons who receive it.
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC (“Morgan Stanley”), its affiliates and Morgan Stanley Financial Advisors or Private Wealth Advisors do not provide tax or legal advice. Individuals should consult their tax advisor for matters involving taxation and tax planning and their attorney for legal matters.
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC (“Morgan Stanley”) is not implying an affiliation, sponsorship, endorsement with/of the third party or that any monitoring is being done by Morgan Stanley of any information contained within the website. Morgan Stanley is not responsible for the information contained on the third-party website or the use of or inability to use such site. Nor do we guarantee their accuracy or completeness.
The views, opinions or advice contained within third party websites or materials are solely those of the author, who is not a Morgan Stanley employee, and do not necessarily reflect those of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC, or its affiliates. The strategies and/or investments referenced may not be appropriate for all investors as the appropriateness of a particular investment or strategy will depend on an investor's individual circumstances and objectives.
*References to length of service at Morgan Stanley include years at Morgan Stanley and predecessor firms.
Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. owns the certification marks CFP®, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and federally registered CFP (with flame design) in the U.S, which it awards to individuals who successfully complete CFP Board’s initial and ongoing certification requirements.
The use of the CDFA designation does not permit the rendering of legal advice by Morgan Stanley or its Financial Advisors which may only be done by a licensed attorney. The CDFA designation is not intended to imply that either Morgan Stanley or its Financial Advisors are acting as experts in this field.
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CRC 6491812 (04/2024)
